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<span id="Influencing-the-linking-step"></span><h3 class="section">2.7 Influencing the linking step</h3>
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<p>These options come into play when the compiler links object files into an 
executable output file. They are meaningless if the compiler is not doing 
a link step.
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<dt><code>-static-libgfortran</code></dt>
<dd><p>On systems that provide <samp>libgfortran</samp> as a shared and a static
library, this option forces the use of the static version. If no
shared version of <samp>libgfortran</samp> was built when the compiler was
configured, this option has no effect.
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<dt><code>-static-libquadmath</code></dt>
<dd><p>On systems that provide <samp>libquadmath</samp> as a shared and a static
library, this option forces the use of the static version. If no
shared version of <samp>libquadmath</samp> was built when the compiler was
configured, this option has no effect.
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<p>Please note that the <samp>libquadmath</samp> runtime library is licensed under the
GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), and linking it statically introduces
requirements when redistributing the resulting binaries.
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